(AUDIO) PRESTON COOPER DELIVERED HIS RESIGNATION TO THE POST OFFICE TO PURSUE HIS CAREER IN MUSIC

debut single: “WEAK

Before Preston Cooper became a full-time country singer, he thought he had found his lifelong career as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service.

Preston Cooper – Labor Day post office :15

“When I started the post office, I loved it and I thought it was gonna be what I was gonna do for the rest of my life. Like, the next 30 years I was like, ‘I got my job. I’m good to go.’ But I would always sing when I carried mail. Everybody called me the singing mailman in my hometown, which is kind of cool.”